Easy Country Guitar Lessons - 'Memphis Scale' - Part 1

[testdrivin]

now thats a guitar! hollowbody am i right?

[perseusbeatkraken]

It doesn't scream country but it is very cash sounding early country ish! I guess??

[geobruf123]

never thought to reverse the 3rds! learnt something new in 5 secs. thanks!

[KabukiGallery]

reminds me of chet atkins!!! GREAT JOB

[lacuevadelvampiro]

re-quinto

[thingblue12]

wow dam nice guitar man

[levijones79]

remindin me of some hank garland

[RingsOfNeptune]

That sounds 100% country, man!

[myownschadenfreude]

I want to wrap myself in that tone like a blanket on a cold winter morning.

[tomthefunky]

I've never heard Americans refer to what you're doing as the "Memphis Scale". It seems only people from the U.K. and Europe call it that. Steve Cropper is from Memphis and he's famous for that technique, but he never once called it the Memphis scale. We in the States call it "sliding sixths".

[elzeko]

These are some of the best lessons on You Tube. I use them in my playing. Keep up the great work!

[heatmanable]

Darn nice job (-:

[bloozeman100]

excellent lesson!!!!!

[DensGuitarLessons]

@ih8tbush Not that I am aware of - let me know what time it appears in the video and I'll tell you what I said.

[ih8tbush]

@DensGuitarLessons 1:52 but you were saying "shapes"! (accent that's all).

Great lessons (and I've been playing for a very long time)!

[thedevine01]

Nice guitar ... looks like a country gentlemman...Great video !!

[sergiowako]

whats that guitar you using it remainds me of my "EPI sheraton" it even stops the fret marks at the 15th fret like mine

[niloc8665]

Den thank you for taking the time to post these lessons. Really helping me break out of a rut with my guitar playing. Cheers!

[DensGuitarLessons]

Wow, thanks for the nicest comment on these vids yet. That is exactly why I do these videos tho.

I've had loads of 'a-ha' moments myself over the last 14 years, but often through buying guitar magazines or by working it out by (in those days) pausing the tape, rewinding it, playing that bit again, rewinding it, playing it etc etc etc I met a lot of musicians but few ever stopped to show me anything and so I'm sharing my stuff on here.

More 'a-ha' moments to come I hope ;-)

[ta11438]

Keep up the good work Den good to see a Brit into country guitar there aren't enough of us and this is a great style of guitar, for anyone else interested in this style I'd also check out Joe Dalton's Big twang.

[529376100]

@DensGuitarLessons check out beethoven minuet in G. he was one of the first to use these chromatic neighbor tone ideas.

[CommittedMusic]

This was a huge "a-ha moment" for me Den! THanks so much for "giving a damn" to post these. It's people like you that make the music world a bit more human, doable and fun.

CHEERS from Las Vegas Buddy,

- Troy :o)

[lumpfish99]

i like your guitar......

[acetatostereo]

WHAT A FREAKING GUITAR MEN....!

[FirstBassman13]

Nice.

The only thing I would have added is telling me people why the shape changes from the G to the A and so forth.

Being the '1,' the G needs to have the major 3rd.

Going to the A and the B, since they are the 3 and 3 of the scale, the finger on the G string has to slide back one fret in order to become the flat (or minor) 3rd.

[daveedgeguitar]

Great licks, I like the Memphis Scale name also.

Regards from Colorado! Keep up the good work and ignore the non-believers.

[fincaman2]

Why all this debate about what it's called this is a good lesson put over in a nice patient way surley that's enough

[DensGuitarLessons]

You're absolutely right of course, these are technically 6ths if you start from the lower-sounding note, however I prefer to put them across as thirds (the harmonies are a third below the note on the e string).

The reason I do this is simple, when people focus on the note on the e string rather than the note on the G string, in my experience, it helps people remember what they're playing and helps them move the shapes to new keys.

Thanks for watching though.

[waldo2384]

Nonsense. The two notes are a sixth apart no matter whether you measure from the top or the bottom note.

[DensGuitarLessons]

Some thoughts: "muddies your ability to recognize sounds" - the whole point of this channel is to help beginners pick up easy stuff quickly. If ppl want to start analysing and memorising sounds of intervals they can do that a lot farther down the line.

No idea where the term 'Memphis scale' started but a music book I got from a charity shop when I was 19 called it that and I liked the name.

I've seen this kind of debate when people call it 6ths, so maybe it's best to say 'Memphis Scale'.

[wobblingbaby2]

Not sure who repackaged this as the "Memphis scale" but all you are doing is playing harmonised 6ths- NOT 3rds , inverted 3ths are 6ths -Count the notes B-C-D-E-F-G =1,2,3,4,5,6. I think Chuck Berry did use sixths in the break of his song Memphis Tennessee so maybe that is the connection

[thenamesdatlon]

wouldnt it be 3rds with the high e string as the root cause its in the key of G if im not mistaken

[wobblingbaby2]

The only thing the defines an interval is the distance between the notes I think what you are doing wrong is going G-A-B = 3 but if you hold you finger on the deepest note and count to the second note in the interval you go B-C-D-E-F#-G =6 It is important to know and memorize the sound of different intervals so you can recognize them in songs - wrongly naming them in cases like this just confuses people and muddies you ability to recognize sounds

[FazlokAaAaAaA]

thats some neat playing

[ManuelBetten]

there should be a rule of conduct on youtube where if you make a guitar video you disguise your bedroom to look like a guitar room without a bed showing

[Seazer009]

I like your Guitar lessons ! Very nice guitar you have there, it sounds wonderful !

Thanks..

[Robbie485]

Now Thats What I Call A Classy Guitar!

Nice Video!

[DensGuitarLessons]

It's a Shine guitar - a little known Chinese company that apparently make bodies for Les Pauls. Its actully shi-an or something in Chinese. I don't particularly worry bout those kind of things - I tried it out, it felt right, it was affordable at the time, so got it.

[thenoodlesgroup]

i used to own a shine prs copy. amazing guitars for the money!

[bigdudemac1122]

holy shit nice guitar what kind is it

nice lesson too

[62scatmandoo]

Very nice. I've heard that many times but could never figure out how it's done. Thanks!

[dealer205]

Hi Just found love this stuff and am basic beginner, subscribed!